THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

hold such office at the pleasure of the Mayor, and
the issuing of a commission by the Mayor to any

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person as an officer of said Corporation shall he
evidence prima facie in any Court in this State of
the regularity and sufficiency of the appointment
and qualification of such person us such officer.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved January 22, 1868.

Tenure of
office.

CHAPTER 3.

AN ACT to repeal Sections five hundred and
sixty-seven, five hundred and sixty-eight, five
hundred and sixty-nine, and five hundred and
seventy of the fourth Article of the Code of
Public Local Laws, relating to the City of Balti-
more, and to substitute, in lieu of Sections five
hundred and sixty-seven, five hundred and
sixty-eight and five hundred and sixty-nine,
the following :

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Sections five hundred and
sixty-seven, five hundred and sixty-eight, five
hundred and sixty-nine and five hundred and
seventy of the fourth Article of the Code of Public
Local Laws, relating to the city of Baltimore, be,
and the same are hereby repealed, and that the
following be substituted for Sections five hundred
and sixty-seven, five hundred and sixty-eight and
five hundred and sixty-nine :

Repeal.

Sec. 567. The Mayor and City Council have
power to provide by ordinance for the appoint-
ment, as other city officers are appointed, of Visitors
or other Superintendents of the Jail of said city, and
to prescribe the powers and duties of such Visitors
or Superintendents ; provided, that until the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore shall have acted in

Officers — how
appointed.